I think ZOS need to have a think about whether what appears to be a deliberate strategy of making the housing game so unbearable that people are forced to the crown store really makes sense in business terms. Because if you annoy players so much that they head, not to the crown store, but to the exit because the game is so joyless to play, that is in the long run not more revenue, but no revenue and reputational damage that will never go away.

By default, any player who cares a jot about housing has already been obliged to pay for a subscription to get the increased slot limit. By default, any player who wants literally any of the newer, big houses has had to buy it from the crown store at prices that are more than what a full triple A game costs in real life money -- for a digital house. If you want flowers that don't look like weeds, crown store. If you want a small piece of liquid water, crown store. If you want a statue that doesn't look like it was made from plastic, crown store. And then with the stuff you actually CAN get in the game world it will take a month to get enough materials to make a single piece.

I mean, seriously, this does not come across as a company that wants to give players a fun experience. It looks like a company that sees its players as walking wallets to be gouged of every last penny and it leaves a really bad taste in the mouth.

(It is also the field of play where the conflict between solo players doing the most solo activity in the game -- housing -- and the game's bizarre trading system is most obvious and acute. Selling things is gated behind guilds which, unsurprisingly, are highly unattractive to many solo players. The only other option is spamming zone chat, which is a ridiculous way to sell items. There is no proper mechanism simply to be able to sell stuff from time to time so that players can keep track with the prices in the player economy, when housing more or less depends on buying from other players at the prevailing prices because so many materials are needed in large quantities, and so many furnishing plans are improbably rare. It would take you a year plus to be able to furnish a house, otherwise, or... The crown store.

But that is a whole different discussion and one which ZOS appears completely unwilling to entertain because they made guild trading one of their sacred cows.)

Daedra hearts also went up in price drastically when Deadlands furniture came out and after many months the price went down again. to simply put give it time because fargrave furniture is the new "hot" item currently and it will go down.

The ancient sandstone is not only found in Craglorn, I've found it elsewhere. Search enough rune locations and you'll get them eventually.

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The ancient sandstone is not only found in Craglorn, I've found it elsewhere. Search enough rune locations and you'll get them eventually.

Are you sure you don't confuse them with mundane runes?

Allow deconstruction of furnishings

This is why I never sell mats. I’ve been farming Craglorn for years and have about 1k of these. I don’t need them now, but I keep them in case I might. That’s a lot of time invested there. If I sell them for cheap and need them later and have to buy expensive then it’s a loss.

Yes, requiring that many of any style mat for one item is too much. I agree. Just like mundane runes.

The furnishing style mat problem really needs to be addressed. All these posts about needing gold sinks, why can’t you just buy these like enchanting runes if you need them?